Melanie Churella

Melanie Ester Churella is a former Miss Michigan and local Detroit TV personality.

Churella was named Miss Michigan in 1987 after the original Miss Michigan, Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, became Miss America.^[1]

Churella went on to anchor live news updates on Detroit's WXON-TV (now WMYD) until 1995, when the station became a WB affiliate and the news updates were removed from the programming schedule.

References

^ "Our Previous Pageant Winners". Miss Michigan Scholarship Program. http://www.missmichigan.org/former_miss_michigans.html.

Preceded by Kaye Lani Rae Rafko	Miss Michigan 1987	Succeeded by Krista Blomgren

Michigan Pageant Winners

Miss Michigan	Patricia Donnelly (1939) · Ann Penelope Marston (1959) · Nancy Fleming (1960) · Toni Jo Abbenante (1967) · Pamela Eldred (1969) · Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (1987) · Melanie Churella (1987) · Kirsten Haglund (2007) · Ashlee Baracy (2008) · Nicole Blaszczyk (2009) · Elizabeth Wertenberger (2011)

Miss Michigan USA	Carole Gist (1990) · Kenya Moore (1993) · Jill Dobson (2000) · Kenya Howard (2001) · Crystal Hayes (2005) · Danelle Gay (2006) · Kelly Best (2007) · Rima Fakih (2010) · Channing Pierce (2011)

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